Dalai Lama Quotes - Page 17

• Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

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  Discipline, Nuclear, Impatience

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• We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

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  Compassion, Concern For Others, Peaceful

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• Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

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  Hurt, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

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  Spiritual, Resources, Secular Humanism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

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  Travel, Years, Inspiring Travel

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• No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Character

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.

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  Religious, Mistake, Believe

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• I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

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  Rights, Perspective, Violence

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• Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

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• Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.

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  Inspirational, Compassion, Peaceful

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy. We live in hope, which means looking forward to something good. And there are increasing scientific findings that both our physical and mental well-being depend on our peace of mind.

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  Mean, Mind, Purpose

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• The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope.

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  Giving, Perfect, World

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• The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

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  War, Blood, Century

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• If you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life’s inevitable difficulties disturb you less.

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  Thinking, Inevitable, Difficulty

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• I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

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  Honesty, Happy Life, Thinking

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• If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.

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  Attitude, Jealous, Humble

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• All sentient beings have the seed of the Buddha within them.

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  Spiritual, Seeds, Sentient Beings

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• We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop warm-heartedness early on in order to create a healthier society. I don't mean we need to change the whole system, just improve it. We need to encourage an understanding that inner peace comes from relying on human values like, love, compassion, tolerance and honesty, and that peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

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  Honesty, Mean, Thinking

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• If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

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  Giving, Joy, Everyday

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• We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.

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  Death, Dying, Research

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.

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  Inspirational, Buddhist, Good Life

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• Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

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  Lying, Compassion, Needs

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• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

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  Anger, Thinking, Brain

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• Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

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  Motivational, Cheating, Bullying

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.

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  Mean, Compassion, Peaceful

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